Workers' Compensation News
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Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Fall | 06/13/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his fall from a delivery truck’s lift gate. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Adopts Rules for Effects of Denied Conditions on Apportionment | 06/09/2022 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division adopted temporary rules governing the effects of denied conditions on apportionment in response to a state Supreme Court case. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Further Action to Revisit Labor Market Attachment | 06/09/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board denying a worker’s request for further action to revisit the issue of his attachment to the labor market. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Can't Get Benefits for Unreported Time Period | 06/08/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker was not entitled to benefits for the time he failed to submit up-to-date medical evidence of a continuing, causally related disability every 90 days until he was classified as permanently disabled. ...Read More | |||
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Webinar to Cover Comp Impact of Macroeconomic Trends | 06/07/2022 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| AmTrust is hosting a webinar on June 8 to explore the impact of macroeconomic trends on the workers’ compensation market. Matt Zenger, seni...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Full Measure of Impairment After Knee Injury | 06/07/2022 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Oregon Supreme Court ruled that a worker was not entitled to the full measure of impairment for all new findings of loss after a knee injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Failure to Disclose Minor Soccer Injury Doesn't Foreclose Claim for Torn Achilles | 06/07/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker’s failure to disclose a minor ankle injury from playing soccer did not foreclose his ability to receive benefits for a major injury to the ankle at work. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Can Proceed With Labor Law Claim for Alleged Fall | 06/06/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment to the defendants in a Labor Law claim arising from a worker’s alleged fall on a plywood ramp. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Refusal to Cooperate With Vocational Rehab Warrants Reduction in Benefits | 06/03/2022 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld the reduction of a worker’s benefits due to his refusal to cooperate with a vocational rehabilitation counselor. ...Read More | |||
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Wage Growth a Factor in Mitigating Proposed Rate Hike | 06/02/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Wage growth projections for California that increased sharply over the last year likely reduced the size of the advisory pure premium rate increase recommended by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. ...Read More | |||
